Warehousing & storage
Somewhere for the cargo to sit until you need it — instead of accruing charges in the customs yard.
What happens to your goods
We take your shipment after release, devan it, count it and store it, then release it to you or to your customers in batches as you need it. That solves two problems at once: charges in the customs yard, and a private warehouse that cannot absorb a full shipment in one go.
Consolidation
If your goods arrive from more than one supplier or in more than one shipment, we consolidate them here into a single consignment before transport or delivery.
- Receiving and devanning containers
- Counting and checking on receipt
- Storage suited to the nature of the goods
- Several shipments consolidated into one consignment
- Re-packing and re-wrapping where needed
- Release in batches to you or to your customers
Storage charges — the cost nobody budgets for until it lands
A customs yard is not a warehouse. It is a place goods pass through, and they accrue daily storage there that escalates the longer they stay — with container demurrage running alongside it, owed separately to the shipping line. The two meters run at the same time and are counted apart.
This is where the common mistake sits. An importer assumes the problem is the speed of clearance, when much of it comes after release: the goods are cleared but have nowhere to go, so they stay in the yard and the meter keeps running. Warehousing solves that — somewhere ready for the cargo to move to on the day of release, which stops the meter.
When storing with us is the right call
- Your warehouse is smaller than the shipment. You import a full container because the unit price is better, but your warehouse cannot absorb it at once. We hold it and release what you need each week.
- Your goods arrive from several suppliers. Three small shipments landing at different times that need to reach your customer as one. We receive them, consolidate, and send a single consignment.
- Your selling is seasonal. The goods arrive two months before the season because that is what the supplier's schedule dictated, and the season has not started.
- Your customer takes delivery in batches. Your contract calls for monthly delivery and the goods arrived in full.
- The goods need work before sale. Re-packing, wrapping, labelling, or breaking down into smaller units.
Receipt — what happens on the day the goods arrive
We take the shipment in, devan the container, count the packages against the packing list, photograph anything broken or short, and tell you the same day. This is not a formality: proving a shortage or damage on the day of receipt is possible; proving it three weeks later is another matter entirely. From that moment you have a documented picture of what actually arrived, rather than what the invoice says was sent.
Storage and clearance in one file
When clearance, transport and storage sit with one provider, there is no gap between stages for goods or time to fall into. The carrier is booked against the expected release date, the warehouse knows in advance what is coming and when, and the cargo moves from yard to warehouse the same day instead of waiting on a fresh arrangement.
Questions we get asked
Why store with you instead of leaving the goods in the customs yard?
Do you receive goods from several suppliers and consolidate them?
Can you release the goods in batches to my customers?
Do you check and count the goods on receipt?
Send us the documents — we'll tell you what's missing
We read the invoice, certificate of origin and bill of lading, and tell you what will stop your shipment before it arrives — not after it is sitting in the yard. No obligation.